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Yep there are many more reasons than "typing fast" for using Vim. For me the main motivator to dive into Vim was to not use the mouse at all because it constantly gave me RSI. It worked great. I never again had RSI since I switched to Vim for all my coding.

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I think part of the benefit of vim for RSI is that there's not much chording - pressing two keys at once.

When not using vim you often need control characters on the left hand. Ctrl-C Ctrl-V Ctrl-X Ctrl-A are all on the left. Also, for bash, Ctrl-R and Ctrl-E. I've been training myself to use the right ctrl key for all these, because for some reason I was chording with the left hand.

I've also tried to learn to use caps lock for all-caps, but with less success.

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